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B. 0. PRESBY. Q COMBINED BUTTON AND DRAWERS SUPPORT. No. 561,435. Patented June 2, 18:96.

a wewtoz i ATENT OFFICE.

EDVIN O. PRESBY, OF NEYV YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED BUTTON AND DRAWERS-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 561,435, dated June 2, 1896.

Application filed. February 12, 1896. Qerial No. 579,057! (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN O. PRESBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Button and Drawers-Support; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in drawers-supports whereby the drawers may be hungfrom the inside of the waistband of the trousers; and it consists of certain novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which the same parts are indicated by the same letters throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of the trousers and of the drawers supported thereby as seen from the inside. Fig. 2 represents a central longitudinal section through the socket of the separable button used in connection with my invention. Fig. 3 represents a side elevation of the opposite part of the separable button used in connection with myinvention, together with the snap-hook for supporting the drawers. Fig. 4 represents an end view of the separable button with the drawers-supporting hook attached thereto, the said button being detached from the trousers.

A represents the trousers provided with the usual waistband, into which the separable buttons for the suspenders and for the drawers-supports are secured. These separable buttons consist, essentially, of the button proper, 0, provided with the hollow shank c, which is interiorly screw-threaded, as at 0, and is flanged, as at c.

The opposite member of the button consists of the disk D, provided with the screwthreade'd tongue d which is adapted to screw into the hollow shank of the button 0. This disk D carries a metal loop cl, in which ongages the eye 6 of snap-hook E, which snaphook is preferably made of a single piece of resilient material bent to form two eyes 6 and c, with the ends abutting, as shown at e in Fig. 4. The lower eye e is made larger than the upper eye 6, and is adapted to receive the tape 1), which is ordinarily attached to the drawers B.

The button is attached to the trousers by screwing the two members together until the waistband of the trousers is pressed firmly between the two. At the same time the button is so adjusted that the loop cl or the hook IE will be approximately vertical.

It will be obvious that the herein-described suspender-bntton and drawers-support may be readily attached to the trousers or removed therefrom, and thus a convenient means for simultaneously attaching both of these supports to the trousers without the troublesome operation of sewing is provided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. A combined Suspender-button and drawers-support comprising a separable button formed of two members, one of said members being provided with a hollow shank and the other member being in the form of a disk with a screw projecting from the center thereof and adapted to screw into the opposite member, a loop attached to said screw, and a snap-hook attached to said loop, substantially as described.

2. A combined suspender-button and drawers-support comprising a separable button formed of two members one of said members being provided with a hollow shank with an annular flange at each end thereof, and the other member being in the form of a disk with a screw projecting from the center thereof and adapted to screw into the said hollow shank, a loop attached to said disk, and a hook E made of resilient material bent to form two eyes (2 and c, with the ends abutting as at e", the smaller eye being engaged in said loop, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

EDIVIN 0. PRESBY.

Witnesses:

Ms. K. BOYD, SPENCER ALDRICH. 

